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Indiana has been all over the news lately for their wonderful Religious Restoration Act (translation: freedom to discriminate legally). What’s being missed in all the furor is a massive HIV outbreak in southeast Indiana. They usually have 5 new cases a year and so far it’s up to 68 and counting in the past 30 days.
An unprecedented outbreak of HIV continues to sweep across southeastern...

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The naysayers against PrEP and Truvada have been remarkably quiet lately, and there’s a reason for that. There’s far too much proof that Truvada as PrEP for every demographic group has worked. Here’s a roundup of CROI 2015 of all the PrEP news that came out of the conference courtesy of Poz Magazine:
New research underscores the great potential of Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis for...

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I’m actually surprised they didn’t come up with these sooner.
If you’re one of “those” couples who like to get far too intimate in public (shame on you), then you might want to consider picking up the creepiest piece of clothing we’ve ever seen.
Introducing the PlayPants, the new jeans featuring completely unzippable hidden front pockets – yes, that’s...

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This is going to be bad. Infections are up and Parliament decides to take that budget and destroy half of it.
The funding for HIV Prevention England (HPE) has been halved from £2.4 million ($3.5 million €3.4 million) to £1.2 million ($1.8 million €1.7 million).
NAT CEO Deborah Gold said today (13 March): ‘We are deeply concerned about the level of upheaval to HIV prevention provision across...

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Oy…I haven’t seen one of these in a while, but I have to admire Joe Jervis’s consistency. In his lightening fast cut/copy/paste reflex, as usual, he leaves out some very important facts. The story itself:
The novel therapy involves taking stem cells from HIV-infected patients and using a gene editing tool to cause them to form into white blood cells with a specific mutation. The mutation...

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Thomas Guerra, who was previously accused by a former partner of lying about his HIV status in order to purposely infect him has plead no contest to the charges:
Thomas Miguel Guerra, who entered the plea on the day his trial was to go forward, faces up to six months in custody and a $1,000 fine when he is sentenced April 13.According to the City Attorney’s Office,
Guerra’s case is the...

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I didn’t think it would come out this way, so I’m very glad I’m wrong:
The vote caps off a long fight that pitted many Internet activists and tech companies against big ISPs such as Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Pro-net neutrality activists have argued that ISPs need to be barred from creating paid prioritization services in which they can charge content providers more...

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Things like this make the internet worth while:
One staple of musical humor over the past several years has been to perform death metal covers of songs that are otherwise happy and upbeat. While this kind of joke has grown somewhat stale, there are times when someone comes along and does it so well that you still have to tip your cap. Such is the case with YouTube user Andy Rehfeldt, who arranged...

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Indiana has been all over the news lately for their wonderful Religious Restoration Act (translation: freedom to discriminate legally). What’s being missed in all the furor is a massive HIV outbreak in...

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The naysayers against PrEP and Truvada have been remarkably quiet lately, and there’s a reason for that. There’s far too much proof that Truvada as PrEP for every demographic group has worked....